Hollywood Filmograph (Jan-Dec 1932)

HOLLYWOOD FILMOGRAPH Paramount Announces Season's Program Charles R. Rogers Outlines His Plans CEORCE M. COHAN IS SIGNED .. TO APPEAR IN "THE PHANTOM .. PRESIDENT"— MORE HOT NEWS Squarely facing the fact that motion pictures have entered an era of new entertainment values, Paramount Publix Corporation, in announcing its 192-33 production schedule today, simultaneously announces the inauguration of an entirely new principle of photoplay making. Approximately sixty-five feature pictures are planned for the coming year. In addition to this ambitious program of feature picture production, Paramount will present 241 short subjects, making a total of more than 300 pictures during the 1932-33 season. The feature Pictures either now in production or scheduled for early filming: "Movie Crazy," Harold Lloyd's newest comedy. "Love Me Tonight," starring Maurice Chevalier, under the direction of Rouben Mamoulian. "The Way to Love," will be Chevalier's second starring vehicle, and "The Sign of the Cross" will be producer by Cecil B. DeMille with the full resources of the company at his disposal. "Blonde Venus," "Deep Night" and "Promised" will be the trio of pictures in which the fascinating Marlene Dietrich will be starred. "Horse Feathers," starring the Marx Brothers, and "The Big Broadcast," with Bing Crosby. "A Farewell io Arms," featuring Fredric March and Claudetie Colbert "Pick-Pp," wilh Carole Lombard and George Rafl. "The Lone Cowboy ," starring a new personality in the person of Randolph Scott with Frances Dee. "Anything for Sale," will bring together Sylvia Sidney, Gene Raymond, directed by Marion Gering. ..Tallulah Bankhead and Gary Cooper in "The Mirror; of Washington." "Not Married" will be Ernest Lubihch's initial production of the new season,, with Mirriam Hopkins slarrring. George Rafl and Arianne Allen have been cant in the leading parts for "No Bed of Her Own." "Madame Butterfly for Sylvia Sidney and Gary Cooper. "The Lucilania Secret," with Claudetie Colbert. "Hoi Ice" for Richard Arlen and "The Red Temptation," a real melodramatic thriller of Russia of today, with Norman Taurog directing. "Lives of a Bengal Lancer," with Clive Brook. "The Song of Songs" for Miriam Hopkins, and "If I Had a Million," an allstar cast. "Blood and Sand," with Tallulah Bankhead and Gary Grant, to be directed by Richard Wallace, and "The Trouble with Women," with Mary Boland. Sylvia Sidney and Fredric March will head the cast for "R. U. R.," which will be brought to the screen with Rouben Mamoulian directing. "Riddle Me This," "Fires of Spring," "Connecting Rooms," "The Glass Key," "The West Pointer," "The Crime of the Century," "Dream Without Ending" and "Hot Saturday," all of which will be featured production. Included in the short subjects Arthur Forde "THE WORLD AND THE FLESH" AT THE PARAMOUNT THEA TRE This theatre on Sixth and Broadway is getting more popular each week and in the latest Bancroft picture there was a waiting line around the block at the evening performance. This story of Russia between the rule of the Czars and the Soviets is well told and was taken from Zeska and Ernest Spitz. Screen play by O. H. P. Garrett and directed by John Cromwell, who produced splendid drama and chowed us reality in the play by Phillip the stirring time during the action of the story. George Bancroft was never seen to better advantage than as the "Sailor" who ruled his comrades with a rod of iron. Miriam Hopkins as an "Aristocrat" dancer was as lovely as usual and her playing of this difficult role was superbly done. Reginald Barlow was another player of distinction and his characterization of the "Leader of the Comrades" was tellingly portrayed. Alan Mowbray and Georgie Stone were two others of which special mention should be given. Emmett Corngan, Mitchel Lewis, Oscar Apfel Harry Cording, Max Wagner and Freike Boros were others who contributed greatly to the success of this stirring drama. There wa beautiful photography by Karl Struss, especially the scenes on the boat as well as the scene during the revolution. A fine, interesting picture which the audience enjoyed. Arthur Forde for the year will be one hundred and four issues of the Paramount Sound News, thirtysix two-reel comedies and one hundred and one single reel productions which will include Screen Songs, Sports-eye Views and a series of thirteen one reelers to be known as "Hollywood on Parade." A radical departure in line with Paramount s aggressive production plana for the 1932-33 enierlaimenl season was announced today on the floor of the company's annual convention when it Was revealed thai George M. Cohan will come io Hollywood in about a month to asnsl in the writing, and to play the stellar role in "The Phantom President." Following the completion of this picture, Cohan will write the story for "Song of the Eagle." LARGE TRANSPORT PLANE AVAILABLE for charter trips. Leaving for Indianapolis Races about May 29 and return no later than June 1 . $200 Round Trip. Write 'Airplane Ecitor," care Hollywood Filmograph for reservations and particulars. TYPEWRITERS— ADDING MACHINES Hollywood's modern equipped shop RENT a Machine— 2 Months $5.00 OWN YOUR OWN— Monthy Payments 5.00 HOLLY-BEVERLY TYPEWRITER CO. 1650 North Cahuenga GLadstone 1590 Bud Murray IN HOLLYWOOD NOW By BUD MURRAY Another Sid Grauman premiere — WOW — What price depression — No hard times was noticeable here — and how they turned out — Rich man, poor man, beggar.-man, thief — The Hoi Poloi — Stars — near-stars, extras, Politicians — Literati — Direcors — Managers —Film executives — and more noticeable was the unusual amount of notables and their wives — Lookee, here they are, dresst to kill : Marlene Dietrich and her hubby — Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Robinnso — Mr. and Mrs. Wally Ford — Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Ales — Bebe Daniels and her hubby — Ben Lyons — Mr. and Mrs. Frederick March — Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Nagel, and, by the way, Conrad Nagel made a peach of an air M. C. aided and abetted by our boy friend Lawrence Grant and Hedda Hopper, who told "what the well-dressed women were wearing"— Ed Lowe and his Missus Lil Tashman — Anita Loos, the black headed blonde promoter, and her hubby,/o/in Emerson, former head of the A. E. A. — That charming couple, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and his bride, Joan Crawford, who by the way, was the highlite in the picture, which, by the way, was "Grahd Hotel (as if you didn't know) — That stage Prologue, by Sid Grauman, caught our eye more than the picture — A real, honest togoodness atmospheric prologue — What a remendous setting — In fact we thought the Grand Hotel stage set, was more "scrumptious" than it looked in the picture — A great kick we received as our ex-pupil, Jean Harlow, showed up in that "copper-red" hair — WoW — A few executices too — Joseph Schenck — Sam Goldwyn — -Louis B. Mayer — Mrs.Grauman, "grande" old mother of Sid, being idolized in the lobby — Sid, himself all agog — Pat O'Brien — Jack Oakie — Wally Beery — Polly Moran — Bob Montgomery — Bert Wheeler and Bobby Woolsey are only a few of the comics we saw — Mr. and Mrs. Waller Huston — Anita Page and Genevieve Tobin — Billy Bakewell — Lionel Barrymore — and Will Rogers acting as stage M. C. and we add we were more impressed with the magnitude of the stage prologue, more than the picture, and at a late hour with crowds still waiting to get a look-see at the stage and screen world "showing off" — and they are rite IN HOLLYWOOD NOW. To the opening of "Hit the Air"— which puts you back in a rut — How can anyone with a grain of sense use good money in these days for a "Gorgonzola" like this one — 5am Coslow on his own was fine — Vera Van, good, but not presented rite — The rest of the cast should stay behind the "Mike" — We noticed in the audience the very comical team of Lester and Carson, back from an F. & M. tour — Ben Bard, all fagged out after his long siesta with the same Unit — Ben would do better to write a whole new show, get new actors, new scenery, if any, than try to "Fix" this one — Johnny Quillan all dresst up in a Tux — Eddie Borden down in front — Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Ales — Gilbert Brown, editor of the Record asked — Why "do they put on shows like this?" — We'll bite, WHY? Someone must be stagestruck IN HOLLYWOOD. is a story i mystery From the HAS GREATEST LINEUP OF PICTURES OF ANY INDEPENDENT —PARAMOUNT RELEASE Charles R. Rogers has completed arrangements for seven of the eight exploitation specials which he will produce for Para*mount and with headquarters now established at Universal City, actual filming on "Madison Square Garden," first of the group will be started within the next two weeks. "Madison Square Garden," from a story by Thompson Burtis, is a dramatic romance laid against the colorful background of one of the most unique institutions of its kind in the world. Sport champions vie with screen stars for stellar honors and many outstanding personalities of New York's sporting and political world will appear in the picture. Through a deal which Rogers negotiated with William F. Carey, president of the Garden Corporation, he has exclusive rights to photograph any and all events taking place there. "Seventy Thousand Witnesses' which combines the appeal of thriller with a football drama. novel by Cortland Fitzsimmons, its action takes place on the gridiron during the most thrilling moments of a big game. It will be ready for release at the height of the football season. "It Takes the Irish" is a feature comedy in which Rogers intends to introduce a new team destined to enjoy the success which followed in the wake of the earlier Rogers box-office hit, "McFadden's Flats." Frank Dazey is credited with the original story. Two new Jack Lait novels will be filmed by Rogers on this program. Each will be released simultaneously with its serialization in hundred of newspapers. "The Girl Without a Room," first of the Lait duo, is a human, down-to-earth romance laid amidst the fascinating atmosphere of the real Greenwich Village. Its principals are a young bookkeeper and the most beautiful artists' model in the art colony and it will have the same general appeal as "Millie," one of the biggest Rogers box-office hits of 1931. The second, "I Can't Go Home," is a drama that strikes to the very depths of America's social structure. Rogers intends to feature the same feminine player in both pictures and the search for the right personality to play these two great parts is already usder way. Sixth on the schedule is "The Bottom of the Sea," a melodramatic thriller by Henry R. Symonds in which the climax takes place below the surface on the very bed of the ocean. Remarkable undersea photography will be employed in filming this unusual production. "American Citizen," by Nina Wilcox Putnam, is a story of epic proportions showing the making of an American. It is said to be something of a "Cimarron" of New York as it depicts the development of Manhattan from the time when John Jacob Astor, founder of the Astor fortunes, was a fur trader, to the present day. Rogers secured the screen rights to "American Citizen" from the manuscript before Miss Putnam sent it east for publication serially in the Saturday Evening Post. It will be issued in book form later by Ray Long and Richard R. Smith. The eighth and final picture of the RogersParamount group will not be announced at this time, thus permitting the producer the opportunity of securing some extremely timely or sensational new story should the occaion arise later. OPENS MAY 15 Henry Duffy announced Louise Fazenda ni Avery Hopwood.s farce comedy, "The Alarm Clock" to open at El Capitan, May 15. $1.00— "WE GROW HAIR"— $1.00 National Scalp Specialists 1780 Highland Ave. HO. 9923